Sometimes customizing a piece simply means taking something which we already make and making it your own. Our client liked our There’s No Place Like Home Wall Art . . . with a slight twist . . . There’s No Place Like New York.
This custom piece was ordered in a reduced size of 16″ x 7″ to accommodate a smaller space. The detail is still striking at these dimensions.
Would you like to create your own custom wall art?
We enjoy custom projects and this custom carved oval Serving Tray was a delight to create. Our client, Laura, was a pleasure to work with and we really enjoyed seeing her delighted expression when she saw her completed Serving Tray.
Serving Trays make wonderful personalized gifts. What can we do for you?
The van Vegten Family
We were contacted to create a very special Christmas gift. Our client commissioned us to create a custom made, heirloom-quality, Diplomacy gameboard. This was a delightful project and it was a pleasure to work with Stacey.
All the components were milled from solid cherry hardwood.
Our client chose to have handcrafted stained playing pieces included with the gameboard.
Our daughter created two satin-lined velvet drawstring pouches for the playing pieces.
Our client secured rights to reproduce the gameboard image. The digitally reproduced gameboard image is protected under glass.
We carved our client’s personal inscription (under pouches) within one section of the interior.
The finished outer dimensions of this custom Diplomacy gameboard are 38.625″ long x 28.875″ wide x 3.75″ tall.
The design of this gameboard included enclosed storage for game pieces, note pads, etc.
Also included into the design were finger-holes which facilitate the removal of the playing surface in order to access the storage compartment.
Do you have a custom project in mind? We’d love to help.
The van Vegten Family
Look what I found inside this 8/4 slab of Cherry . . .
. . . this lovely oval Serving Tray.
We are ready to offer our new oval Serving Tray for purchase through our website. Look for it to be released next week.
This is a favorite – This piece was a surprise gift from a loving wife to her dear husband for their Wedding Anniversary. The text on this Wall Art is rooted in one of our favorite ministries – Highlands Ministries.
Highlands Ministries exists to help Christians
live more simple, separate, and deliberate lives
to the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.
We enjoyed being part of such a lovely Anniversary gift and making new friends along the way.
What would you liked carved on your inspirational Wall Art?
Jim & Rebecca
We are so grateful to our client for this information and for her kind words. Here is the explanation which our client provided to us about this very unique Serving Tray –
The tray is lovely and will be a unique gift for this couple. I promised to let you know the origin of the drawing, so here it is.
The couple are both from Bremen Germany, the home of the Bremen musicians which is what the four animals are stacked on top of each other. There is a children’s story about them you can look up and they are a prominent icon and statue in Bremen. We could have chosen the founder, Roulan, whose statue is nearby the musicians, but he is not anywhere as well known outside of Germany and not nearly as cute!
The Bremen musicians are on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town South Africa, where the bride’s family has roots and a home and where the couple was married during a residency for medical school for the bride in August.
On the left is one of the towers of the H. B. Plant Hotel, now the University of Tampa, in Tampa Florida, where the bride’s family also has a residence, the couple vacation here often and the bride had another medical residency here also.
So what the artist did was combine the notable features of each place in the world, which we selected, that the couple has ties to jointly.
The wood is fabulous and the translation of the sketch to the wood is very well done. I hope the couple likes it as much as everyone else!
You were very easy to work with and accommodating and responsive. Thanks for your help!
We truly want our clients to be delighted with their custom order, and to enjoy the process of bringing their design concepts to fruition. It is always such a joy to hear from them after they’ve received their order.
Rebecca & Jim
We recently created a very special wood Serving Tray which is to be a wedding gift. We were asked if we could work from hand-drawn artwork and carve a Serving Tray featuring the artwork. Our client had an artist prepare a drawing incorporating some elements that were special to this particular couple. The hand-drawn artwork was then mailed to us.
We had a great laugh with our client when we shared with her what we thought the artwork represented. We were completely wrong. Any guesses?
Jim & Rebecca
Recently, I cut some letters out of Gatorfoam for a client.
This is an economical way to achieve a very eye catching sign for a business. Below are a few pictures of the project.
What can my robot and I cut for you?
JIM
I just finished a rather interesting project. I was commissioned to make some wooden parts for an antique truck. My client is restoring a 1933 Dodge Pickup and is going to cut the truck in half and “stretch” it four inches. Up until the late 1930s GM used quite a bit of wood in the manufacture of their vehicles. My task was to recreate a couple of boards which would be sandwiched between the cab and frame of the truck. I was provided with the boards from another restored truck to use as patterns from which to work and given the point at which to insert the additional four inches.
Following are some images of the old and new parts.
IF YOU NEED IT AND CAN’T FIND IT – I CAN MAKE IT!
JIM
I have been asked to create a base for a small chest of drawers. This particular base is to have turned legs. I thought I would share the process of creating a turned piece on my CNC machine.
I use my CAD/CAM software to design and create the necessary vectors and toolpaths for machining –
I then create a 3D simulation of the piece for review –
I thought you would find it interesting to see what the toolpaths look like. This is an image of the toolpath for roughing-out the turned leg –
This image represents the toolpath for machining the leg –
Here is the toolpath for machining the flutes, something that cannot be done on a traditional lathe –
Roughed-out on the machine –
Here is a finished cabinet leg still in the machine –
Finished cabinet leg –
What can I turn for you?
JIM
